I've had this idea on my list of shit to post, for years. And you don't need to explain to me why people downvote.
Had this been years ago, there would be far more genuine responses like you see along with people having fun like you see and me responding with fun and upvotes like you see, and far fewer straw boss responses from people concerned I might break the platform.
Now you're calling a simple joke, spam, in so many words. This "nothing burger" is sitting in the top slot most viewed posts on peakd today for some f'd up reason.
You're explaining why you would downvote this in great detail. Yet you're disappointed in me for thinking you would after saying you would if "this" continues.
No guilt trips please. I didn't order that.
This is a joke. It's meant for entertainment purposes only. If you don't like my "spam nothingburgers", please go to another restaurant and order something else.
Maybe next time the menu will be more to your liking.
I replied to your post with a fun reply, you responded to it.
I left a reply to a comment asking if posts like these get downvoted here, I vaguely responded to it then tried to make it clear what I meant.
You're the one who went apeshit for no fucking reason.
DUDE. Let it go.
It's almost like you're farming pointless drama with what transpired here. Thanks for wasting my time.
Dude. Chill. It's called a communication breakdown. These things happen. I'm not going to sit here and talk in circles. Let it go. I'm fine. You're fine. We're all fine. It's a nice day. People are out enjoying life. We can too.
It's weird that you're concerned about walking on eggshells if I were to threaten with downvotes yet you react this way over me trying to explain to someone in your comments what kind of stuff we'd downvote.
That was your "explanation."
I'd say my reaction is normal but if you want to make me out to be weird, that's cool too.
How was my first short comment the explanation? I even followed it up to your questionmark with a bit more context which I hoped was enough to understand where I was coming from.
Dunno what's going on with you but if you think that's an okay way to react I guess this is where we part ways.
Yeah. I do think that's an okay way to react. And I'll continue to write how I want to write, joke how I want to joke, and do what I want to do.
If that's a problem for you, that's a problem for you. Not me.
Yeah that's fair, just thought I'd let you know.
Take care
See you tomorrow.
I'm sorry. I can't believe my stupid question would lead to you guys arguing. I've seen posts getting downvoted for much less, like posting only pictures, recycled content, or even getting too much votes.
To me this looked very weird, as it does look like spam to me, and if I would have posted something like this, I would most certainly get downvoted.
But what I didn't realize was this was your thing around here. It was meant to be a fun post.
You two lovebirds need a room.
Yeah, I could have done better. Apologies for snapping. I did explain after that I misread it, but even that wasn't clear. By the time I got here I was frustrated because I didn't want to be talking in circles.
To clarify: I took it like you were telling me if I carried on, I'd be downvoted. To me this was a legit post, creative, funny, and meant to draw in engagement. I planned to continue down this path, rather than spending hours on digital art and writing lengthy articles. Returning to my roots, in a sense. Had a lot of fun back then. So I thought this plan would lead to downvotes rather than fun, so I was upset about that. You didn't know this. I took it like I'd be downvoted simply because people don't get the art. So I reacted, to what I thought was happening. I was frustrated because deciding to go ahead and start posting again was a difficult decision to make. So it felt like I was being shot down for no reason before I really got a chance to start. It killed all my motivation to continue. I saw the words "if you keep it up, downvotes are coming" so I didn't think that was reasonable because I planned to do a lot more, not this way of course, but more of the same short humorous style. Thought about including AI images as well to help the jokes along. Sure I misread but I didn't know that at the time. Had a million thoughts racing through my head.
However, I've decided to fully retire anyway. And it's not because of this. My health won't allow it. My health also contributed to this reaction. Dealing with too much, all at once. I admit, I can't keep up. Lost my cool and don't feel good about that. It had less to do with you, Acidyo, and more to do with me combining all my stress into one pile and regrettably boiling over. Had I taken my time and sorted out my thoughts, it would have came out differently. The message could have been delivered in a more productive fashion, for sure.
Legit apology dude. I made a mistake, you didn't deserve that reaction. Have a good one.
Anyway, I know you and I know you're not just creating content like this that comes off as low effort for the sake of farming. So there's no risk of downvotes from my perspective on this so I hope you continue to post and engage here. My "threat" is more that if at some point it comes across that it's just low effort posts to get post rewards for close to no effort generated by the author (both in the post and comments) as we see often in this space, then aside from not upvoting a post I don't think it's wrong if people downvoted some of the obvious autovotes you, I and many others receive.
I can understand you felt "betrayed" thinking I was threatening with downvotes but what I couldn't understand was you continuing to ramble further even though I was explaining that that was not the case. Dunno, felt a bit deliberate to create drama and paint me in a bad light even though I thought you'd know me better by now. Even if I was threatening with downvotes it felt like you overdid it and reacted in the worst way possible to downvotes.
Was quite a shitty encounter in general but I'm willing to ignore it given you're not in the right headspace at the moment.
If my actions of supporting creativity on this chain don't speak for themselves then I don't know what will.